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Crampy Grampy
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You cannot rent a decent place to live in the state of connecticut unless you are making at least $20.00 and hour. That is a statistic that blew me away the other day, I heard it on NPR and I was dumb founded! How many people make min. wage that isnt even $7.25 an hour!
You are totally right the politicians vote in their own raises as often as wanted and we all pay and pay and have more and more tax rights taken away so we make less and less.
It is time to get out in the streets and fight like good patriotic americans use to do! |
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joyceeleann
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Instead of complaining about it we should be glad it was alteast approved. THe government never takes big steps..just small ones. |
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wolf
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Only if you work 100 hours a week. |
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kevin
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super sheetz starts you off at 9.50 and hr and then you can get a raise in like 6 weeks |
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mhp_wizo_93_418
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it is an improvement from the $5.15 min. wage. |
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albert_noodles
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No one in America can provide for a family of four on $7.25 and also pay for health care benefits. I believe Mr. Lee Scott, the C.E.O. of Wal-Mart, the largest private employer in the world,displayed how out of touch the Corporate and Government Big Wigs when he was quoted in an interview with Katie Couric "that he was sure what a liveable wage is" and "the average Wal-Mart associate earns $10.00/hr". I can tell you that I am about to begin my fourth year at Wal-Mart and at my fourth anniversary date I will then be an Average Wal-Mart associate. For the past 3 years I have made less than $10.00/hr and Thank God I'm single. As I look around my workplace, I wonder how some of my co workers do it with families to provide for. Most of them I'm sure are uninsured and our tax dollars are taking care of their Helath benefits through welfare programs. |
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nay
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Doesn't surprise me any. That is why I joined the Coast Guard. Get paid, have a roof over my head for me and my family, and food to eat. |
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Katie
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No, but its better than $5.15. Can you believe that there were people that DIDN"T want the minimum wage increase?(republicans) These are the same people that complain that their tax dollars are paying for welfare and complaining that people should "get a job". Hello!! They DO have a job. They just can't pay housing costs, medical care, bills AND feed their children on minimum wage. Not to mention daycare costs that take up half of their wages while they are at work. |
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pcpy
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You've missed the point of minimum wage. First; it only applies to full time workers (over 32 hours per week in most states), Second; it doesn't apply to temporary day labor. Third; the idea behind the minimum wage was not for people to live on it but for people who were entering the workforce or did not need a job to support the family. It was never meant to be applied to meaningful employment.
In 1912, Massachusetts organized a commission to recommend non-compulsory minimum wages for women and children. After many failures it was enacted in 1938 and set at $0.25 per hour. In 1968 it was at $1.60 per hour, today, as you know, it is $7.25 per hour. All this will do is "force" employers to hire more workers at less hours or charge more for their services thus putting the burden back on the poor.
Most, forgive this as it is not meant to be derogatory, poor people, i.e. minorities, white lower middle and lower class, are uneducated and do not understand economics at all. This is one reason that the Republican, who normally go after the middle, upper middle class and upper class for votes, have held the line so long. They know that raising the minimum wage will not help the poor. The Democrats however are constantly pulling a fast one on their constituents because they know that they can be fooled.
What we need to do is get rid of the Free Trade Acts so that US companies are forced to come back to the US if they want to do business unencumbered by import taxes. We have too few decent jobs for too many workers. |
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Terry
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It is irresponsible to have kids until you can afford to raise them. A single person can live on the minimum wage. |
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Nance
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Min.wage was NEVER meant to be a end all wage. It was and is meant as a STARTING wage. When you start at a job you should increase your knowledge and experience and recieve raises. You should not have a family of four and expect to remain at your min.wage job. Better yourself and recieve a better salary. Education and Experience increase salary not the government. Expect more from yourself instead of waiting for someone else too. |
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mom_in_love
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that's funny |
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nikita
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New USA Immigrants (legal) do for less...and for many many years. |
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koepnick012787
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I mean... I'm a 20 yr old Male, who's been on my own for a year and a half. I've been making about 6.25-6.50 since I moved out, and was surviving fine on my own. I think that the minimum wage increase was crap. I've been with my company for almost 4 years, making my way up the chain. Now, my 4 years of experience mean nothing, since I'm making the same as the pimply-faced 16yr olds with no experience in any type of job setting.
The goal, for any educated american, would be that by the time people are starting a family, they would not be making minimum wage, because they'd be striving for a better job. A family of four has no business working a minimum wage job. If you're man enough to have a family, then you're also man enough to go out and get a real job to support your family.
But, I think you make a good point. It's not easy surviving on that small of an amount of money, especially with the rate of inflation. Kudos to you. |
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Well, how much should unskilled labor make then? Whether you have children or not doesn't matter. They are setting the minimum wage that an employer can pay someone who is considered unskilled labor.
When I use that term, I am not putting them down, just stating a fact. If you make min wage, that means you have a job that pretty much any person out there could perform with not a whole lot of training. The fry cook or burger maker is a prime example.
If you don't want to make min wage, learn a trade, get your certificate in something, go to college. I went to college, got my degree, so my value as an employee would go up. Anyone else out there could do just as I did. I do not come from a wealthy family. I served in the Corps, got my GI Bill, and worked to pay for the rest of college.
That is what America is about, freedom to WORK towards realizing your dreams. |
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hotgman2z
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NO!!! Specially if you have kids to raise. |
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Pablos+3
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It's true that we have a long way to go...a very...long...way to go...before we can achieve anything close to economic fairness in this country. Unfortunately, changes are rarely made all at once. I think the increase is a step in the right direction, but I agree that it is not nearly enough.
God bless. |
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midtown_blackartist
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I feel that the main problem is that most of these politicians (Republican, Democrat or whatever) consider themselves to be upper or upper-middle class capitalists. They feel that if they didn't need direct government help to earn a living wage no one does. They forget that everyone isn't born into a family that has the resources to prepare them to earn a living wage - An important factor in determining who can financially & emotional go to and make it through college or a high tech training program. A post high school education is the agreed upon requirement for a living wage in America.
Additionally, middle & upper class American fears of socialism will also make it a sure bet that a true living wage will never be supported or adapted in the USA. |
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MG
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I know , it is a shame! I do not see how a family of 4 could live on that kind of an income. That would be terrible! I am sure if Bush had his way we would all be at a fixed salary of $2.00 per day! |
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TheGrimlocks
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Both parties are out of touch with the average American.You have to be rich just to have the money to run for congress.Last year congress had the most breaks in history and didn't get **** done because both parties blame the other for everything wrong in this country.They don't have the balls to give an opinion until they find out what the public consensus is!!!!! |
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Saphira
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Noone could support a household on $7.25 an hour. But you gotta look at it this way. If you have a have a family and are having to get a job, hopefully you will be getting more than that due to previous work experience...with a few years of previous work experience that would probably be over $8 dollars or more depending on where you go to work for. So after that and a raise or two a person could make a decent wage....not a great wage..but it wouldn't make them completely poverty level. |
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laura_e_perry
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I am really disgusted with the way people assume that the only minimum wage jobs are the ones involving fast food - it is NOT the case at all. Or that you are the one who has the kids - perhaps you're trying to help your own parents out or perhaps it's a hypothetical situation. None of us know!
I am not American, but from Ontario where minimum wage is going up to $8.00/hr in February (it's 7.75/hr right now). I am a university student trying to put myself through school so I can have the option of a better paying job one day. But currently, I have to work two part-time jobs just to make ends meet. One is at the university library and the other is in an office at an off-campus student centre which houses various offices and hosts events. And GUESS WHAT? Both are minimum wage and neither are flipping burgers. And another thing - neither are helping me save any money. But with the schedule of a full-time student, I can only work for student jobs. I can just afford rent and food and I'm coming out of school with tons of debt. Oh - and our MPPs (Members of Provincial Parliment) just voted themselves a raise also.
So what is the moral of all this? That with today's economy, minimum wage cannot help a person support anyone beyond themselves. It's absolutely ridiculous. It's the great divide - the poor keep getting poorer and the rich keep getting richer. What a 'free' society we live in. Grr.. |
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thecarolinacowboy
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Who do you have to get in touch with to be in touch with the average American? I assure you that it is not the 4 percent that work for minimum wages; by the way most of this 4 percent are teenagers. Very few heads-of –households work for minimum wages. A better issue for you to address is why any head of a household would have to work in such a low paying job. I would be willing to bet that unwed mothers comprise the majority of this group. What do you want to do about that? |
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Greg M
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Honestly, it is really stupid that they even increased the minimum wage....One thing that the greatest financial analysts in the world can agree on, is that a minimum wage creates enconomical disaster...think about it....ok everyone is making more...but who is paying for it? you! if a company has to pay more money to employees how are they going to get that money? they are going to raise the prices on their products! OR they will fire employees. OR both. so where does that leave you? either in the same position, or worse. look at france, and the UK....both socialist nations...unemployment rate...UK- 25% France- 30-35% depending upon the year....in comparison to the US's 4% unemployment rate...Socialism is proven to fail. |
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nope and Congress just thinks about themselves |
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It's up to the individual businesses to pay you whatever you're willing to accept. It's not the government's job to tell businesses what to pay their employees. It's an entry level wage and not designed to make a living on. |
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goodtimefriend
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you should have thought about how much money you make before you decided to have a family of 4... If you cant afford to have kids then don't have any... or take some responsibility for your life and get some training and get a job that pays more than minimum wage... |
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tumbleweed1954
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You should have thought of this before you had kids. |
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laurancarolina
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No min wage sould be like 14 $ an hour,lol |
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sway_26
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WTF do you think a dang burger flipper should be making, get off your dang soapbox and realize that if people want to make a good living they can develop a marketable skill instead of sitting around waiting for someone to make their life for them.
If you want a politicians wages, then go into politics and get out of fast food or whatever else pays min wage. |
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